“Food deserts”—evidence and assumption in health policy making

By S. Cummins, S. Macintyre. British medical journal, 2002

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Disparities and access to healthy food in the United States: A review of food deserts literature. (2010, background): “…there is a lack of consensus on the definition of food deserts (Hendrickson et al., 2006), and what measures are required for identifying food deserts, thereby contributing to the debate about their actual existence (Cummins and Macintyre, 2002; Cummins, 2003; Reisig and Hobbiss, 2000; Shaw, 2006).”
Physical activity and food environments: solutions to the obesity epidemic. (2009, background): “The higher concentration of fast-food restaurants in poorer neighborhoods (Cummins and Macintyre 2002; Powell, Chaloupka, and Bao 2007) thus is thought to partially explain the higher prevalence of obesity among economically disadvantaged populations.”
The local food environment and diet: A systematic review (2012, background): “, Australia, and New Zealand do not show the same kind of patterns in the existence of food deserts, (Cummins and Macintyre, 2002) perhaps because “food deserts” may take a different form in places without the economic segregation that commonly occurred in U.”
A Systematic Review of Food Deserts, 1966-2007 (2009, background): “The term “food desert” reportedly originated in Scotland in the early 1990s and was used to describe poor access to an affordable and healthy diet (4).”